From owner-freebsd-security Tue Aug 10 17:36:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from univ.uniyar.ac.ru (univ.uniyar.ac.ru [193.233.51.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6A8C154CD for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 17:35:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lae@univ.uniyar.ac.ru) Received: (from lae@localhost) by univ.uniyar.ac.ru (8.9.1/8.9.1) id EAA14830 for freebsd-security@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 04:32:11 +0400 (MSD) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 04:32:11 +0400 From: "Andrey E. Lerman" To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: info on suid/sgid files Message-ID: <19990811043211.X16510@uniyar.ac.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [I'm sorry if it was discussed before, but archives search is not working right now. :( ] I did a quick search for a suid/sgid files on our server's hd and found a lot. I really didn't expected so many. I removed bits on about 80% of it without any visible (yet) impact to system's operation. So I'm wondering, where to find info about what these suid/sgid bits was for and what I loose removing them. Some of progs I chmod'ed really amazed me, for example quota, df, ps, dump, restore, shutdown... It would be nice if info about need of increased privileges needed for given program would be clearly stated in manpage. I'm running 3.1-R now, but it will be upgraded to 3.2-S soon. -- Andrey E. Lerman @ Yaroslavl State University ICQ: 9418370, primary email: lae@uniyar.ac.ru [Lae] on IRCNet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message